The full chart note for Souper Dormy at Gulfstream yesterday: “stalked the pace two wide, took the lead around the far turn, drew clear in upper stretch, fell leaving the eighth pole and was euthanized.” (I suppose you have to admire the writer’s pithiness.) Worse still, after falling, Souper was hit by another horse, Lights of Broadway, who although fell himself was said to have “walked off.” We’ll see.
By the way, this was a “claiming race” – all entrants, including Souper and Lights, were there for the taking just prior to – so you know the only reason the Thoroughbred Daily News covered the kill is because Souper’s jockey-exploiter, Mario Gutierrez, “was transported to the hospital with complaints of a sore hip.”
This is horseracing.
So I’m confused, is Souper Dormy not dead? Was I lying about that? Pick a year, any year, and kindly point out the lies. You are but a sad man with a small mind – and squarely sit on the wrong side of history.
Get off uour soap box and get your facts straight t TDN, the thorobred bred daiily news doesn’t print or publish the “charts the daily racing form does that and its specifically a brief description describing the race from the chart callers view it’s not designed to be a eulogy or whatever else you think it should be it’s purpose is to provide detailed information on the specifics of that individual race for horseplayers and horseman alike period . Let me ask you a question do you have any involvement in other causes besides lying and trying to shut down horse racing? Say are you a member of other causes such as MADD mother’s against drunk drivers ?, I bet not ?? 2nd let me ask you this do you know how many horses persished in the fire at San Luis Rey downs I believe it was in 2017 16?? I believe it was 45 ?? Do you know that pretty much all but are few a very small few perished because after they were released from their stalls by their handlers trying to save them from the fire so they didnt due locked in their stalls giving them a chance to flee just about every horse that ended up dying died after being released and eventually on panic racing back into their very own stalls and there was where they were found ?? Tragic and heartbreaking it brings tears to my eyes now all these years later I’ve been on the racetrack first as jockey now as a trainer since I was a child im 62 now and I love horses ,but what this fact tells me or proves to me that these horses you feel are so abused and mistreated ran or fled to the place they felt the safest they are creatures of fright and flight and in that horrific chaos of such horrific circumstance they returned to the place they felt safest my point is if they felt abused or mistreated in any way when they were let out of that stall they would’ve never returned on their own free will think about this they are not dumb animals would you return if you were them and hadn’t been well treated would you return on your own freewill ? I see this everyday at the track training horses drop their riders in training then once loose 98% of them return stra7ght to their own stalls which is where we catch them it’s another way I say proves their treated beyond well I agree that we like any industry have some individuals who have no business being left in tge care of peat moss let alone a horse but those types I f people exist and always will b it we are always taking steps to improve the standards of safety for all participants equine and human .Now ill also bet you dont publish this on your si t r or forum someone with a contrary opinion other than your own will you?
Elizabeth it was HORRIFIC
“Fell leaving the eighth pole and was euthanized” reads like a routine equipment change, not the violent end of a living horse.
It is grotesque when you pause to consider what actually occurred on the track at Gulfstream Park. The added detail that Souper Dormy was struck by Lights of Broadway, who also fell but reportedly “walked off” underscores how chaotic and dangerous these incidents are. In multi-horse fields traveling at speed, a breakdown rarely affects just one participant. Race horses are treated like commodities and when something goes wrong, the consequences are irreversible for them. Catastrophes like this strip away the pageantry. Yes, this is horseracing.